Accolades 2020 Oberlin Conservatory student honors & awards
Every spring at Oberlin, the conservatory celebrates the achievements of top students with a year-end banquet. Though the show could not go on as planned in 2020, students were lauded by Dean William Quillen and their faculty mentors at a virtual ceremony held in May.
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Gwirceman
The Carol Nott Piano Pedagogy Prize Awarded to an outstanding graduating senior for continued study in piano pedagogy. Natasha Gwirceman ’20 Piano & Math
D’Antonio
The Ernest Hatch Wilkins Memorial Prize Awarded to a returning student who has demonstrated academic excellence in the three preceding years. Christina D’Antonio ’21 Viola The Faustina Hurlbutt Prize Awarded to an outstanding graduating student in cello, piano, violin, or voice.
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Liam Kaplan ’20 Piano & Composition
Julia Harbutt ’20 Musical Studies Zicen Hu ’20 Piano, Musicology & Philosophy The Louis and Annette Kaufman Music Achievement Award in Piano Awarded to the piano student showing the most progress in chamber music. Jiaqing Luo ’21 Piano
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Maggie Kinabrew ’20 Voice & Math
The Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar Awarded to an outstanding student of voice to support professional development. Lexie Prat ’20 Voice The Pi Kappa Lambda Prize for Musicianship Awarded to students judged to be the most outstanding of those elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. Rachel Gibson ’20 Percussion & TIMARA Liam Kaplan ’20 Piano & Composition Andrew Santiago ’20 Flute, Physics & Chemistry
The Margot Bos Stambler ’84 Professional Development Award Awarded to an outstanding voice major of great promise.
The Piano Faculty Prize in Accompanying Awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence in accompanying singers and instrumentalists. Ziyao (Annie) Huang ’20 Piano
Caitlin Aloia ’20 Voice Alexis Reed ’20 Voice & Biology The Theodore Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award Awarded to an outstanding returning student for excellence in musicianship. Maxwell Addae ’21 TIMARA & Computer Science
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The Wendell and Bettye Logan Prize in Jazz Studies Awarded to a graduating student who has demonstrated excellence in performance or composition. Emmett Sher ’20 Jazz Guitar
GWIRCEMAN, GIBSON: TANYA ROSEN-JONES ’97; PRATT, SCHRANTZ: YEVHEN GULENKO
The James H. Hall Prize in Musicology Awarded to a graduating senior for excellence in work in musicology.
Jiaqing Luo ’21 Piano
The Louis and Marguerite Bloomberg Greenwood Prize Awarded to a graduating student excelling in cello, piano, violin, or voice.
Reed
The Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize Awarded to a graduating senior for outstanding music composition.
The Rudolf Serkin Scholarship Awarded to a student demonstrating excellence in piano performance.
Shomya Mitra ’20 Violin
Liam Kaplan ’20 Piano & Composition
The Earl L. Russell Award in Historical Performance Awarded to a student majoring in Historical Performance to assist with the purchase of a musical instrument. Nick Schrantz MM ’22 Baroque Cello & Gamba
The Louis and Annette Kaufman Music Achievement Award in Violin Awarded to an outstanding student of violin.
Prat